When I was 14 years old and stumbled upon this song on RUclips I'd play it in the background while I choked my chicken. And SWEEEEEEEEEEEET DAMNNNNN JAM FROM ALABAMMMMM, to this day when I hear it I get STIFF!
Even the Nazis didn't make fun songs about all the people they killed in the death camps, as Wanda Jackson made a fun song about people dying in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The USA is the sickest and most murderous country that ever existed.
It's because it was a woman... only men deserve success... very sad I'm 43 I've never heard of Wanda till today absolutely next level rocker chick right there...
@@sandramoore Sister, WELL put. 57? pfff its pre Cochran pretty much pre Elvis swiggle and upper half only thing so yeah she was ripe for the late 70's. had a blues tinged rasp that was effective in sell that it could of worked market wise decades after i think. not now though since were airy fairy these days but 70's 80's 90's she'd of sold more. i wonder what happened to her she could of pulled an ole Tiffany trick and came back with the same hit song and slayed it and it may of worked dont know what happened to her but its ahh a loose proof it can be done i guess
@@gingerjeanbacall She had given up rock for country, then pretty well switched over from that to gospel. She did try a comeback at the urging of some younger singers when there was a bit of a rockabilly revival in the 1980's. At least she made it into the rock and roll hall of fame a few years ago. I am old enough to remember one of Wanda's early hits, a ballad called "Right or Wrong" and I recommend it. I was a first grader when it was a hit and I never forgot Wanda and that song.
Undoubtedly the best of the Rockabilly Gals of any era. She was also easy on the eyes, and had a hell of a guitarist by the name of Joe Maphis, backing her up.
I heard this song once on college radio about 20 years ago. It stuck with me all this time even though I never heard it again until now. You rock, Wanda!
My favorite was when this was playing in the background when Joan Jett visits the leather shop in the movie the Runaways..... The leather heads running the shop were listening to Wanda Jackson...so appropriate.
The first time I ever heard her was in a movie. It turned out to be one of my favorite movies of all time. Only lovers left alive. I was floored the second heard her voice. Then I was amused bc I married into the Jackson family hahaha
This is just about as good as hearing her in person. I think it was Christmas of 2006 when I drove 200 miles to see her sing. She is fabulous in person, & she sounded better than this stereo when she sang this song. She is not only a great singer, but a great entertainer. Hank Thompson told me he discovered Wanda, & Hank was a terrific judge of talent! Thanks for posting.
Yes, Japan was full of GI's at the time who probably would have had more spending power than the locals. I suspect, that (opposite to the overly PC'ness these days) folk actually took it in the way it was intended and took no offence at the lyrics...perhaps many didn't understand the lyrics too mind, but..
Can't get enough of this, so good, I was lucky to see her in Memphis at Elvis Week a couple years ago, great tunes, she shared some great stories from R&R's early days and her experiences being a part of the changing music scene at the time, Wanda is someone who was actually there and a major participant in the making of music history, it was a privilege to meet her, awesome lady!
I've been to Nagasaki Hiroshima too the same I did to them baby I can do to you Cause I'm a Fujiyama mama and I'm just about to blow my top Fujiyama-yama Fujiyama And when I start erupting ain't nobody gonna make me stop I drink a quart of sakey smoke dynamite I chase it with tobaccy and then shoot out the light Cause I'm a Fujiyama mama... [ guitar ] Well you can talk about me say that I'm mean I'll blow your head off baby with nitroglycerine Cause I'm a Fujiyama mama... Well you can say I'm crazy stone deaf and dumb But I can cause destruction just like the atom bomb Cause I'm a Fujiyama mama... I drink a quart of sakey... Songwriters Read more: Wanda Jackson - Fujiyama Mama Lyrics | MetroLyrics
"In Fujiyama/ You get a mama/ then your troubles increase/ in some pagoda/ you order soda/ earthquake milkshakes ten cents apiece." The song 'Down In Nagasaki' was written before WWII, and mentions a Fujiyamama mama. Meanwhile, in Japan, a 'mama' can be a term for mother, but it tends to refer to a lady barsteward... if you go into a bar, and a lone woman is in charge, that's a 'mama'. (A man doing that job is a 'master'.) As for the first lines of the song, back in 1957, those bombings were American/Allied victories, and the Cold War was about to hot up. If the song sold well in Japan, well, the Macarthur years were not far behind, and, quite bluntly, most Japanese probably didn't understand the words.
I find it so interesting that this was actually a huge hit in Japan when it was released. She toured there because of its success. Considering the lyrics, it's a real head-scratcher.
3goodtimes It could be that they simply didn't understand the lyrics, but just recognized some familiar words. Or that they were less easily offended. My guess is a bit of both.
Looked this up while reading The Great Celestial Jukebox by Cynthia Shearer. Some reviewers have called the songs on the Jukebox mythical. But, if I don’t know them already, I look them up. There’re all real as far as I can tell, from the Louvin Brothers to Wanda Jackson. This is terrific!!! 👍
I remember this song, being from Oklahoma I just took Wanda for granted, I had no idea how great she really was, until I grew up, and what a sexy performer.
Wow ! Wanda is the greatest rock'a'billy and rock'n'roll singer of all time. A face and body of a beauty queen and a voice so incredibly powerful like a jet engine chewing up and spewing out razor blades. Stand back ! Love you Wanda !! , Dean.
I met Wanda in 20 years ago in Long Beach at The Foothill. I was dressed to the nines and went into ape shit ballistic spaz-mode when her rock-a-billy band broke out all the jams. There were so many girls there and most seemed to dig it, but i was a little shy and dropped my winning hand. When I waent up to purchase a autographed picture from her (what ever happened to that?) We talked for a couple minutes. She told me I was weird "Gabriel, you're a weird one.." propably because I was so enthusiastic and jazzed to meet her. I mean, to give you an idea how much I liked Wanda, the only way for me to hear her music was to go to a gay bar where they had one of her CD's and hustle dudes to put money in the machine and buy me drinks because i was self inflicted piss poor. for pretty much my entire 20's i was a couch surfing nihilist who hated working and just wanted to get blitzed out of my bohemian babylon. But enough about me. I saw her a few years later at the Blue but it was no where near as fun as the Foothill. Now later, she's all popular and on Movie Soundtracks, Jack While, and the hipster's hearts, but for awhile it was magic. Or at least that night was..
i drink a quart of sake, smoke dynomite. i chase it with tabaccy and than shoot out the light, cuz im a fujiyama mama and im just about to blow my top!!!
@@jacksters19 Funny cause it was Elvis who told her she should do rockabilly and initially she didn't want to do it. Also, can you name some of those stolen songs
Michael Ofjord right on sir...same as a great book, movie, "real" history or anything real. political correctness is also another form of detachment and/or denial of reality. like a sickness--and this is just the antidote
This is not even about PC, it's about ignoring the human cost of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What if the Germans won ww2 and made Holocaust rock'n roll? I love Wanda Jackson, I literally love her - her voice gives me a hard-on. But this song is simply vile, and expresses exactly what the world hates about USA.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, +Sebastian B. Thank you for caring and daring to stand up and speak out for people like me. My whole extended family is from the Nagasaki area (I was born there too). CW: Below is the true story of how my grandfather narrowly escaped the Bomb, including very graphic details of the horrifying aftermath. Viewer discretion advised. . . . . . Thankfully, most of our family at the time managed to stay safe from the air raids by evacuating to the country side. However, my grandfather still needed to commute daily into town for his work at the bank. For some reason, on that particular day, he didn't end up going into town. Instead, he was needed to join a crew of workers to harvest tree resin in the countryside. Everything was going fine... until work crew suddenly heard a massive sound, and there appeared tons and tons of strange smoke and clouds rising in the distance. Soon after, the work crew noticed very strange creatures slowly crawling on the ground toward them, from the direction of the massive explosion. It was hard to even tell if these poor creatures were animal or human. Their bodies horrifically blackened and burnt, their faces distorted and disfigured, some had eyeballs bulging or hanging off their face. Parts of their flesh were raw, as large areas of skin had melted and were slipping off their bodies. They crawled towards the resin workers, all of them desperately pleading for only one thing: "Water - water - water - please give me water..." My grandfather and the workers were absolutely stunned by this horrific scene. They immediately ran to fetch some water. Sadly, many of the victims were already dying, by the time the water arrived. Some were barely holding on, and then died as soon as they drank the water. My grandfather was determined to find out what exactly had happened. The next day, he went by himself to survey Nagasaki City. The things he saw there were of such unimaginable horror... That day, he made a silent oath to himself that he would _never_ divulge the details of the horrors he had witnessed that day in Nagasaki. He was determined to keep it all inside, in order to avoid causing secondary trauma and nightmares to others, especially his family. He kept his loving oath until the day he died.
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The Queen of Rock'A'Billy ! God Bless Her,
Amen my brother!
David,amen my friend.
The lady who knows what she s singing for .. .. .. 🇺🇸
When I was 14 years old and stumbled upon this song on RUclips I'd play it in the background while I choked my chicken. And SWEEEEEEEEEEEET DAMNNNNN JAM FROM ALABAMMMMM, to this day when I hear it I get STIFF!
Barbie Vs Oppenheimer 😂😂
That song rocks so much ,too hot for 1957. Love her energetic country vioce and rocking guitar ,Wanda is a great artist .long live rock n roll .
Classic !! Real music !☘️ from the heart !
Too hot for 57,you've lost me
She's the Queen of Rockabilly Metal.
Even the Nazis didn't make fun songs about all the people they killed in the death camps, as Wanda Jackson made a fun song about people dying in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The USA is the sickest and most murderous country that ever existed.
@@Trip_Fontaine Tell us all how you don't understand the song! It was a hit in Japan, too. 😊
Voice like a chainsaw. Balls of steel. What a dame.
From only having heard the voice, I was expecting to see somethin' sorta... creature-ous. Sure wasn't expecting scorching hotness, but there she is.
I agree. She was sultry and scintillating. Bad ass and hot!
I don't understand how this amazing talent wasn't the huge success it should be.
It's because it was a woman... only men deserve success... very sad I'm 43 I've never heard of Wanda till today absolutely next level rocker chick right there...
@@vanessaadendorff469 hate to say it but youre right, guys like Eddie Cochran were big round the same time and didnt rock half as hard.
The adults were scared of rock 'n' roll. A hard rocking girl was too mind blowing for them. She never got the radio airplay she deserved.
@@sandramoore Sister, WELL put. 57? pfff its pre Cochran pretty much pre Elvis swiggle and upper half only thing so yeah she was ripe for the late 70's. had a blues tinged rasp that was effective in sell that it could of worked market wise decades after i think. not now though since were airy fairy these days but 70's 80's 90's she'd of sold more. i wonder what happened to her she could of pulled an ole Tiffany trick and came back with the same hit song and slayed it and it may of worked dont know what happened to her but its ahh a loose proof it can be done i guess
@@gingerjeanbacall She had given up rock for country, then pretty well switched over from that to gospel. She did try a comeback at the urging of some younger singers when there was a bit of a rockabilly revival in the 1980's. At least she made it into the rock and roll hall of fame a few years ago. I am old enough to remember one of Wanda's early hits, a ballad called "Right or Wrong" and I recommend it. I was a first grader when it was a hit and I never forgot Wanda and that song.
Love this lady. She is gutsy & she rocks.
Undoubtedly the best of the Rockabilly Gals of any era. She was also easy on the eyes, and had a hell of a guitarist by the name of Joe Maphis, backing her up.
I've just discovered this performer! Brilliant. I want more!!
How could i have not known of her,thought it was Brenda Lee at first,WOW.
She was drop dead gorgeous!!!!
Oh yeah !! Without a doubt.
I'm playing guitar for Wanda this Saturday, Feb. 17th, here in Oklahoma City at the newly remodeled Tower Theater. REALLY lookin' forward to it.
Steve Hawkins I hope that you had the time of your life
searched it up and immediately found the video. Great performance
Looking forward-DEC 2020. How did the gig go ?? am interested.🇦🇺🤔
I’m so jealous!! I’m going to look it up now. I bet you had a blast 😁👍
damnnn
I heard this song once on college radio about 20 years ago. It stuck with me all this time even though I never heard it again until now. You rock, Wanda!
La reina del rock. Voz portentosa. Un saludo a tod@s desde España.
To you too OSCAR, Greetings from everyone in AUSTRALIA.
This is Great!!!!...it is 2021...she still ROCKS!!!..so does this song!!!
Damn in her prime, she was so beautiful and talented! What a woman.
Looks angelic, sings as if possessed. What a wonderful, crazy rocker. Probably the most underrated rock and roll anthem.
Absolutely fantastic can’t believe a lot of people don’t know about her ? Class Act !!!
As possesed ?
NO !!!!! she signs like angel .!!!!
Maybe a little crazy, but true angel !!!
You should hear her do Riot in Cell Block # 9!
@@sandramoore I will, thanks!
@@martig1000 I had no religious insinuations in mind, only metaphorical, LOL.
My favorite was when this was playing in the background when Joan Jett visits the leather shop in the movie the Runaways.....
The leather heads running the shop were listening to Wanda Jackson...so appropriate.
msattler111 I want what he's wearing.
msattler111 Joan Jett is Wanda Jackson from the 80's.
nah
WANDA JACKSON 100% PURE BEAUTY AND CLASS, AS FOR ROCKABILLY SINGERS SHE HAS TO BE NO 1
What about JANIS MARTIN!?????????????
WILDONE57 WHY DO YOU HAVE ALL CAPS
She was a beautiful gorgeous attractive woman.
@Scotty Robins Janis who ?
@@eatman8602 TO COVER OUR HEADS !
The Queen Of Rockabilly and a total babe!
Wow. New Wanda Jackson fan right here! This is phenomenal
This should have been in kill bill vol1
Agreed
The first time I ever heard her was in a movie. It turned out to be one of my favorite movies of all time. Only lovers left alive. I was floored the second heard her voice. Then I was amused bc I married into the Jackson family hahaha
At some point in the near future, people are going to recognize this woman for her music that she put out.
Unique singer with her own style and She's a beauty!
This is just about as good as hearing her in person. I think it was Christmas of 2006 when I drove 200 miles to see her sing. She is fabulous in person, & she sounded better than this stereo when she sang this song. She is not only a great singer, but a great entertainer. Hank Thompson told me he discovered Wanda, & Hank was a terrific judge of talent! Thanks for posting.
#1 talented singer/guitarist/entertainer/beauty of the entire music scene
I remember finding a cassette of her from my dads music collection and i was sold! I loved her sound for 25years
Can you believe this song hit no.1 in Japan???
Yes great song.
the fuck how was this no1 in Japan she is singing about bombing hiroshima and nagasaki .....
Yes, Japan was full of GI's at the time who probably would have had more spending power than the locals. I suspect, that (opposite to the overly PC'ness these days) folk actually took it in the way it was intended and took no offence at the lyrics...perhaps many didn't understand the lyrics too mind, but..
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It was a japanese song too, by Harry Hosono and the Yellow Magic Band
Can't get enough of this, so good, I was lucky to see her in Memphis at Elvis Week a couple years ago, great tunes, she shared some great stories from R&R's early days and her experiences being a part of the changing music scene at the time, Wanda is someone who was actually there and a major participant in the making of music history, it was a privilege to meet her, awesome lady!
Great singer and performer and a beautiful woman.
This girl has an awesome voice with a great attitude to back it up!
Beyond words. Such an inspiration. Life outside the box. Thank God.
What a magnificent voice!
I've been to Nagasaki Hiroshima too the same I did to them baby I can do to you
Cause I'm a Fujiyama mama and I'm just about to blow my top
Fujiyama-yama Fujiyama
And when I start erupting ain't nobody gonna make me stop
I drink a quart of sakey smoke dynamite
I chase it with tobaccy and then shoot out the light
Cause I'm a Fujiyama mama...
[ guitar ]
Well you can talk about me say that I'm mean
I'll blow your head off baby with nitroglycerine
Cause I'm a Fujiyama mama...
Well you can say I'm crazy stone deaf and dumb
But I can cause destruction just like the atom bomb
Cause I'm a Fujiyama mama...
I drink a quart of sakey...
Songwriters
Read more: Wanda Jackson - Fujiyama Mama Lyrics | MetroLyrics
"In Fujiyama/ You get a mama/ then your troubles increase/ in some pagoda/ you order soda/ earthquake milkshakes ten cents apiece." The song 'Down In Nagasaki' was written before WWII, and mentions a Fujiyamama mama.
Meanwhile, in Japan, a 'mama' can be a term for mother, but it tends to refer to a lady barsteward... if you go into a bar, and a lone woman is in charge, that's a 'mama'. (A man doing that job is a 'master'.)
As for the first lines of the song, back in 1957, those bombings were American/Allied victories, and the Cold War was about to hot up. If the song sold well in Japan, well, the Macarthur years were not far behind, and, quite bluntly, most Japanese probably didn't understand the words.
What a fantastic singer,brilliant song,such spectacular singing artistry is so very evident throughout this performance,⭐️🎶🎵👍🎼🎧🎹🎤🎸
This song and Whirlpool....CLASSIC WANDA
So love Wanda, just as great today as she was then ❤️
The female Elvis Presley what a voice, real quality.
Can we please have more women like Wanda? Please? I'm asking nicely...
+Nik Shillingburg Debra June and The Rockin' Tunes
colin smith I will indeed look them up brother
yes, you may have more women like her. 😁
yes, you may have more women like her. 😁
I think wed have a much more interesting and enjoyable time if there were
I'm A Fujiyama Mama And I'm Just About To Blow My Top...Wow, Wanda Really Rocks This Song, I Love It!!!
This lady is every bit as instrumental in the birth of Rock n Roll as Elvis, Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins and the rest!
bruh this whole time i thought she was saying "im a hoochie im a mama" LOL
I CANT UNHEAR THIS
Haha..
I thought the same thing the first time I heard it
God her voice makes my knees weak
Awesome, i grew up with her!!! Love this soul!
I find it so interesting that this was actually a huge hit in Japan when it was released. She toured there because of its success. Considering the lyrics, it's a real head-scratcher.
3goodtimes It could be that they simply didn't understand the lyrics, but just recognized some familiar words. Or that they were less easily offended.
My guess is a bit of both.
+Andvare That, and they like everything American anyway...
It was a big hit in Japan because 60 years ago people weren't so fucked up in the head!
It’s because the Japanese love rockabilly even to this day
@@bluerocker5563 Exactly as fucked up as you are?
Stunning gallery of stunning beauty!
Wow the 50's were wild, nitroglycerin, tobacco, saukki, hard rocking metal,
Makes me shiver when I hear wanda, a brillaint voice and a gorgeous woman,,
blooming brilliant!
Looked this up while reading The Great Celestial Jukebox by Cynthia Shearer. Some reviewers have called the songs on the Jukebox mythical. But, if I don’t know them already, I look them up. There’re all real as far as I can tell, from the Louvin Brothers to Wanda Jackson. This is terrific!!! 👍
History of Rock & Roll, right here!
Obrigada, Célia, maravilhoso vídeo, ver e ouvir pessoas que estiveram com Elvis.
Muito bom,belo trabalho.
Wanda was pretty damn hot in her day . An still hangin in today :) .
Season 2 Fallout soundtrack im calling it!
I remember this song, being from Oklahoma I just took Wanda for granted, I had no idea how great she really was, until I grew up, and what a sexy performer.
Love you Wanda!!!!
The Queen!
Great, one of the best female rock & rollers ever!
Excellent !
>Makes a tongue-in-cheek song about warcrimes
>refuses to elaborate further
>leaves
Truly based.
Wow!! Great song
Toutes mes condoléances pour la famille de Wanda Jackson
Right to my Fallout playlist
whoa that's the same beat as You Upset Me Baby BB King. Oh I love music!
Wow ! Wanda is the greatest rock'a'billy and rock'n'roll singer of all time. A face and body of a beauty queen and a voice so incredibly powerful like a jet engine chewing up and spewing out razor blades. Stand back ! Love you Wanda !! , Dean.
Gosh shes fantastic
Love this song! Wanda Jackson is amazing! Play this for my kids...my 2 yo loves it!
🎵 Sagenhaft ! 👍 🧡 Kraftvolle Stimme, ein wunderbarer Rockabilly song.
Super cool and so talented...
Love it so!
I met Wanda in 20 years ago in Long Beach at The Foothill. I was dressed to the nines and went into ape shit ballistic spaz-mode when her rock-a-billy band broke out all the jams. There were so many girls there and most seemed to dig it, but i was a little shy and dropped my winning hand. When I waent up to purchase a autographed picture from her (what ever happened to that?) We talked for a couple minutes. She told me I was weird "Gabriel, you're a weird one.." propably because I was so enthusiastic and jazzed to meet her. I mean, to give you an idea how much I liked Wanda, the only way for me to hear her music was to go to a gay bar where they had one of her CD's and hustle dudes to put money in the machine and buy me drinks because i was self inflicted piss poor. for pretty much my entire 20's i was a couch surfing nihilist who hated working and just wanted to get blitzed out of my bohemian babylon. But enough about me. I saw her a few years later at the Blue but it was no where near as fun as the Foothill. Now later, she's all popular and on Movie Soundtracks, Jack While, and the hipster's hearts, but for awhile it was magic. Or at least that night was..
the first rock n roll queen
Damm, I hope this song will be in Fallout 4 OST.
mamailo2011 If not it will be in a mod. Already comes in Conelrad for 3 and NV
She is fabulous
Right or Wrong.......fav by Miss Wanda!!❤️
Wow! So good.
To David amen Wanda Jackson is the true Queen of rock-a-billy!
So,, a natural Beauty!!
Wanda Jackson j'adore ces musiques de rock n' roll
i drink a quart of sake, smoke dynomite. i chase it with tabaccy and than shoot out the light, cuz im a fujiyama mama and im just about to blow my top!!!
Fluent southern.
Astrid chief
Lemmy and the the other players loved her..what higher praise can there be.😎
Classic lyrics
Heard this song for the first time driving through south georgia today, I was blown away.
Ain't nobody got nothin' on this broad! NOBODY. NOTHIN'
Dwight Yoakam playsher music on his station all the time, thank goodness.
If this isn't in the opening credits to Oppenheimer I'm gonna riot
Super to jest... 😍
I'm hooked....More,More,More....
Great audio!
Love you Wanda
oh ! baby !
oh dios, su música y ella son increíbles! :'0
Toujours La Meilleure..!!!
i like her, and the band,good sound !!
Ma chanteuse préférée, j' adore ces chansons, c'est le top
VERY GOOD JOB DONE! REALLY BRILLIANT§
Whoa! Cool!
coming from anya taylor's podcast and its so good she has good music style
Это моя любимая вещь с детства. Первый раз услышал в '60 годы.
Everyone has the wrong idea about this song cuz it's about Mt. Fuji erupting, not the bombing of japan from ww2.
Great!
nothing against poor elvis but wanda rocks waay harder
Donna Fromt Elvis stole a lot of music from the less fortunate talented people.
Wanda's great but nobody compares with Presley at his peak . He had it all ...by the bucket load ....right to the end .
@@jacksters19 Funny cause it was Elvis who told her she should do rockabilly and initially she didn't want to do it. Also, can you name some of those stolen songs
Happy Birthday to Miss Jackson !!!
HOLY COW!
Could you imagine the PC crowd today listening to this?! Way ta go Wanda!
wow! That's cool, didn't know that! Thanks.
OMG, political correctness destroys democracy the world over
Michael Ofjord right on sir...same as a great book, movie, "real" history or anything real. political correctness is also another form of detachment and/or denial of reality. like a sickness--and this is just the antidote
This is not even about PC, it's about ignoring the human cost of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What if the Germans won ww2 and made Holocaust rock'n roll? I love Wanda Jackson, I literally love her - her voice gives me a hard-on. But this song is simply vile, and expresses exactly what the world hates about USA.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, +Sebastian B. Thank you for caring and daring to stand up and speak out for people like me. My whole extended family is from the Nagasaki area (I was born there too).
CW: Below is the true story of how my grandfather narrowly escaped the Bomb, including very graphic details of the horrifying aftermath. Viewer discretion advised.
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Thankfully, most of our family at the time managed to stay safe from the air raids by evacuating to the country side. However, my grandfather still needed to commute daily into town for his work at the bank. For some reason, on that particular day, he didn't end up going into town. Instead, he was needed to join a crew of workers to harvest tree resin in the countryside. Everything was going fine... until work crew suddenly heard a massive sound, and there appeared tons and tons of strange smoke and clouds rising in the distance.
Soon after, the work crew noticed very strange creatures slowly crawling on the ground toward them, from the direction of the massive explosion. It was hard to even tell if these poor creatures were animal or human. Their bodies horrifically blackened and burnt, their faces distorted and disfigured, some had eyeballs bulging or hanging off their face. Parts of their flesh were raw, as large areas of skin had melted and were slipping off their bodies. They crawled towards the resin workers, all of them desperately pleading for only one thing: "Water - water - water - please give me water..." My grandfather and the workers were absolutely stunned by this horrific scene. They immediately ran to fetch some water. Sadly, many of the victims were already dying, by the time the water arrived. Some were barely holding on, and then died as soon as they drank the water.
My grandfather was determined to find out what exactly had happened. The next day, he went by himself to survey Nagasaki City. The things he saw there were of such unimaginable horror... That day, he made a silent oath to himself that he would _never_ divulge the details of the horrors he had witnessed that day in Nagasaki. He was determined to keep it all inside, in order to avoid causing secondary trauma and nightmares to others, especially his family. He kept his loving oath until the day he died.